Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)

From: Mike Coleman <tutufan@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 31, 2007, 16:58 UTC
Message-ID: <3c6c07c20701310858v488ebbd4k98cd14340661f086@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0701310959220.3021@xanadu.home>

On 1/31/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

> Matt Mackall said himself that some core portion of hg have been
> rewritten in C in order to improve performances.

For what it's worth, sloccount reports the following:

git: 52K C, 17K Perl, 10K sh, 6K Tcl, 300 Python

hg: 14K Python, 700 C

Speculating wildly, I'd be surprised if the C part of git couldn't be reduced below 5K, at a cost of an 8K increase in Perl (or Python), and not more than a doubling of runtime. (This speculation is for entertainment purposes only--I'm not suggesting a course of action.)

Mike

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